What’s New @ RFID Journal Live! 2011 – Part I at RFID Radio by Academia RFID

Weldable Metal RFID Tag

Picture : Evie Bennett, Vice President, William Frick & Company

Evie from William Frick & Company presents some of their custom RFID tags for harsh environment. No doubts that these RFID tags are extremely durable – they can be embedded in concrete, heat and cold resistant, metal mounted tags, Weldable Metal RFID Tag!!!

“We have exceptional tags for harsh environment, made out of metal that can actually be directly welded onto equipment, such as in the oil & gaz industry, the electric utilities…”

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Customize your RFID labels

Picture : Rochelle L. Heinl, Manager, RFID Business Development, Repacorp Inc

Rochelle from Repacorp, Inc. presents some of their products in the (RFID) label industry and they can help in customer’s label applications.

“…as many companies are now looking for item level tagging, they may be looking for prime or high quality labels (…) we have a digital press where we can take our stock labels and imprint them with high quality four color process, UV ink and it ends up being a beautiful print ”

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From Auto-ID and mobility to managing RTLS at the edge of the enterprise

Picture : Sam Falsafi is co-founder of the RFID Oil & Gas Solution Group and senior Director of Business Solutions at Shipcom Wireless

Sam Shared with Academia RFID some insights on Shipcom’s supply chain execution platform (Catamaran) new applications.

“Shipcom has expanded from auto-id and mobility for back end systems (i.e. enhancing the experience at the edge of the enterprise) to managing RTLS systems at the edge of the enterprise (…) capture the movement of goods and personnel and present it in a graphical view (…) combine the different data capture technologies from different vendors and present that in s single view”

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Create a business workflow and deploy it immediately

Picture : David Orain, VP. Marketing & product Management, Omintrol Networks

David Shared with Academia RFID couple insights on Omnitrol application network solutions / RFID middleware platform.

“This year we are supporting new adaptors, mostly for RTLS but also new readers coming in the market (…) beside device adaptation we create services that are going to run locally on the software, so it allows you to quickly create a business workflow and deploy it immediately without having to go through the complexity of long development processes …”

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A new mobile RFID cart for asset tracking

Picture : John E. Baker, President, Venture Research Inc

John shared with Academia RFID some of Venture Research latest products: the mobile cart.

“we are working on a number of applications that are more focused on tracking for tools, security, check in check out kind of applications …For example we are looking here at a mobile cart solution that can be used to track small assets, doing put away in a warehouse, (…) tool tracking in general, or also in pharmaceutical industry or in hospitals where you are moving material (…). RFID antennas and the reader are actually built into the cart – in fact, the shelf is the reader and the antennas infrastructure – with the ability to deliver the information(movement of the products, cart location, etc.) using WIFI or GSM ”

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